According to today’s issue of the Patriotic Post, crime committed with guns is down dramatically over the last 20 years.
Excerpt:
According to Pew Research Center, “Compared with 1993, the peak of U.S. gun homicides, the firearm homicide rate was 49% lower [per 100,000 people] in 2010, and there were fewer deaths, even though the nation’s population grew.
The victimization rate for other violent crimes with a firearm — assaults, robberies and sex crimes — was 75% lower in 2011 than in 1993. Violent non-fatal crime victimization overall (with or without a firearm) also is down markedly (72%) over two decades.”
In a separate report, the Justice Department said that the actual number of homicides (as opposed to the rate per 100,000 as Pew considered) committed with guns is down 39 percent.
Readers of The Patriot Post won’t be surprised by this information, but in spite of this long-term decline, most Americans think the trend is actually the opposite.
That’s because Democrats and their Leftmedia allies continually play up “gun violence” as if it’s a growing plague brought by the evil Nazis at the NRA. Facts simply don’t matter when their gun-grabbing agenda is on the line.
There are many theories for the reduction in crime, but we’ll note just this: State concealed carry laws have been widely adopted and expanded over this same 20 years.